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Biography of Juan Escutia (excerpt)
Juan Bautista Pascasio Escutia y Martínez (born February 22, 1827, in Tepic, died September 13, 1847, in Mexico City) was one of the fighters who died during the Battle of Chapultepec. Little is known about his status, and it is uncertain if he was part of the Military College.
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Biography of Adolf Jensen (excerpt)
Adolf Jensen, born on January 12, 1837, in Königsberg, was a German pianist, composer, and music teacher. Mostly self-taught, he received some instruction from Louis Ehlert, Louis Köhler, and Friedrich Marpurg. In 1856, he moved to Russia to teach, hoping to study with Robert Schumann, but Schumann died before they could meet.
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Biography of Karl Salvator of Austria (excerpt)
Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria (Italian: Carlo Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Filippo Jacopo Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero; German: Karl Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Philipp Jakob Januarius Ludwig Gonzaga Ranier; Florence, 30 April 1839 – Vienna, 18 January 1892 (pneumonia)), was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg.
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Biography of Edmond Tulasne (excerpt)
Edmond Tulasne, born on September 12, 1815, in Azay-le-Rideau and died on December 22, 1885, in Hyères, was a French botanist and mycologist. Son of a clerk, he studied law and worked as a notary clerk while developing a passion for botany with Charles Delastre.
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Biography of Rosina Heikel (excerpt)
Emma Rosina Heikel (17 March 1842 – 13 December 1929) was a Finnish medical doctor and feminist. In 1878, she became the first female physician in Finland, and specialised in gynaecology and paediatrics.
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Biography of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (excerpt)
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (January 29, 1835 – April 9, 1905) was an American children's author best known under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, into the affluent Dwight family, she moved to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1852. She was the aunt of writer and poet Gamel Woolsey.
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Biography of Ferdinand Keller (painter) (excerpt)
Ferdinand Keller, or von Keller (5 August 1842 – 8 July 1922) was a German genre and history painter. Life He was born in Karlsruhe to the family of a civil engineer. In 1857, when he was fifteen, his father was awarded a contract to design bridges, roads and dams in Brazil.
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Biography of Maurice de Guérin (excerpt)
Georges-Pierre Maurice de Guérin, born on August 4, 1810, in Andillac, and died on July 19, 1839, was a French poet and writer. He is particularly known for his correspondence with his sister, Eugénie de Guérin. A contemporary of authors such as Victor Hugo and Lamartine, he wrote Le Centaure and La Bacchante, works that bridge the religious romanticism of Chateaubriand and the poetic modernity of Baudelaire.
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Biography of Catharina van Rees (excerpt)
Catharina Felicia van Rees (22 August 1831 – 1 April 1915) was an author, editor, and composer. She wrote novels about the lives of composers and edited a collection of "Dutch Authoresses" to use the language of the time. She wrote her novels under the pseudonym Celéstine.
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Biography of Elias Nason (excerpt)
Elias Nason (April 21, 1811, in Wrentham, Massachusetts – June 17, 1887, in North Billerica, Massachusetts) was a Massachusetts Congregational clergyman, educator, editor, and author. He started working in a paper mill in Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1826, while attending school. After five years, he studied at Amherst College for a year before entering Brown University, where he taught to finance his studies.
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Biography of Pierre Cuypers (architect) (excerpt)
Petrus Josephus Hubertus "Pierre" Cuypers (May 16, 1827 – March 3, 1921) was a Dutch architect best known for Amsterdam Central Station (1881–1889) and the Rijksmuseum (1876–1885). He designed over 100 churches and restored numerous monuments. Born in Roermond, he studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Art in Antwerp, earning the Prix d'Excellence in 1849.
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Biography of Aeneas Mackay Jr. (excerpt)
Æneas, Baron Mackay (29 November 1838 – 13 November 1909) was a Dutch Anti-Revolutionary politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1888 to 1891. Born into a noble family from Gelderland, he studied law in Utrecht and worked as lawyer and a judge.
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Biography of Friedrich Hecker (excerpt)
Friedrich Franz Karl Hecker (September 28, 1811 – March 24, 1881) was a German lawyer, politician and revolutionary. He was one of the most popular speakers and agitators of the 1848 Revolution. After moving to the United States, he served as a brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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Biography of Gabriel Guerlain (excerpt)
Gabriel Guerlain, born on July 6, 1841, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, and who died in 1933, was a French perfumer and business executive, one of the sons of Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain, and the brother of Aimé Guerlain. In 1862, his brother Aimé Guerlain took over the family perfume business, having learned the art from their father.
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Biography of Valentin le Désossé (excerpt)
Edme-Étienne-Jules Renaudin, known as Valentin le Désossé, Valentin Montagné, or Seigneur Valache (Paris, February 28, 1843 – Sceaux, March 4, 1907), was a French dancer and contortionist. Wikipedia has February 26 in error. Biography The son of a lawyer from Sceaux, he initially worked as a wine merchant on Rue Coquillière in Paris's 1st arrondissement.
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Biography of Agnes McLaren (excerpt)
Agnes McLaren (4 July 1837 – 17 April 1913) was a pioneering Scottish doctor who provided medical assistance to women in India who could not receive care from male doctors due to cultural restrictions. Active in social justice, she protested the white slave trade and signed the 1866 women’s suffrage petition.
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Biography of François Laurent (jurist) (excerpt)
François Laurent, born on 8 July 1810 in Luxembourg and passed away on 11 February 1887, was a Belgian historian and jurisconsult. He held a prominent position in the Ministry of Justice before becoming a professor of civil law at Ghent University in 1836.
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Biography of Edmond Le Boeuf (excerpt)
Edmond Le Bœuf, born in Paris on December 5, 1809, and died on June 7, 1888, at the Château du Moncel in Bailleul in the Orne, was a French general and politician, elevated to the rank of Marshal of France. A graduate of the École Polytechnique, he distinguished himself as an artillery officer during the conquest of Algeria, the Crimean War, and the Italian campaign in 1859.
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Biography of François Rivoire (excerpt)
François Rivoire, born on April 16, 1842, in Lyon and deceased on August 7, 1919, in Villers-en-Arthies, was a French painter. He was the son of Auguste Rivoire, a fabric manufacturer, and Antoinette Musy. In 1868, he worked as a designer and married Marie Bertrand in Lyon.
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Biography of Ernest Jouin (excerpt)
Ernest Jouin (December 20, 1844 – June 27, 1932) was a French Catholic priest, journalist, and author, known for his anti-Masonic and antisemitic writings. Born in Angers to a cabinetmaker, Jouin served as a vicar in various parishes before becoming the parish priest of Joinville-le-Pont in 1882, and later of Saint-Augustin and Saint-Médard in Paris.
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Biography of Octave Pirmez (excerpt)
Octave Pirmez, born on April 19, 1832, in Châtelineau (a section of Châtelet), and died on May 1, 1883, at the Château d'Acoz, was a Belgian writer, philosopher, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. Octave Louis Benjamin Pirmez was the son of Benjamin Pirmez and Irénée Drion.
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Biography of Charles Lenepveu (excerpt)
Charles-Ferdinand Lenepveu (4 October 1840 – 16 August 1910), was a French composer and teacher. Destined for a career as a lawyer, he defied his family and followed a musical career. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and won France's top musical award, the Prix de Rome in 1867.
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Biography of Charles Jacques Édouard Morren (excerpt)
Charles Jacques Édouard Morren (December 2, 1833 – February 28, 1886) was a Belgian botanist who served as a professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden at the University of Liège (1857–1886). His particular field of study was the Bromeliaceae family, for which he was recognized as an authority.
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Biography of Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli (excerpt)
Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli (31 January 1834 to 31 May 1900) was an Italian physician known for his works in pathology and hygiene. He studied for his medical degree at the University of Pisa. He was trained in pathology under the German pathologist Rudolf Virchow.
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Biography of José Nakens (excerpt)
José Nakens (21 December 1841 – 12 November 1926) was a Spanish journalist, republican activist, and anticlerical. His time of birth comes from an autobiographical poem in which Nakens claims to have been born just before dawn (the sunrise was at 7:15).
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Biography of Maurice Lévy (mathematician) (excerpt)
Maurice Lévy, born on February 28, 1838, in Ribeauvillé and died on September 30, 1910, in Paris, was a French engineer known for his contributions to continuum mechanics. Education The son of Alsatian industrialists, he studied at the École Polytechnique in 1854 and the École des Ponts et Chaussées, where he developed a method to calculate forces in continuous beams. ![]()
Biography of Aimé Guerlain (excerpt)
Aimé Guerlain, born on April 2, 1834, in Paris and passing away on February 26, 1910, is considered the father of modern perfumery. As the son of Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain and brother of Gabriel Guerlain, he left an indelible mark on the world of fragrance.
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Biography of Antoine-François Marmontel (excerpt)
Antoine François Marmontel, born on July 16, 1816, in Clermont-Ferrand, and died on January 17, 1898, in Paris, was a renowned French pianist, educator, and musicographer. He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1827, studying under masters like Pierre Zimmermann for piano and Victor Dourlen for harmony.
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Biography of Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the Elder (excerpt)
Friedrich Christian Carl von Bodelschwingh (* 6 March 1831 in Tecklenburg; † 2 April 1910 in Bielefeld-Bethel) was a German theologian and politician. He is best known as the founder of the v. Bodelschwinghsche Anstalten Bethel charitable foundations. From Westphalian nobility, his father Ernst von Bodelschwingh was Prussia's Finance Minister.
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Biography of Michel Carré (librettist) (excerpt)
Michel-Antoine-Florentin Carré (October 20, 1821 - June 28, 1872) was a French playwright and librettist. He frequently collaborated with Jules Barbier, notably on operas by Charles Gounod, and worked with Jules Verne on three opéra-comiques, including Le Colin-maillard and Les Compagnons de la Marjolaine, with music by Aristide Hignard.
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Biography of René Dagron (photographer) (excerpt)
Prudent René Patrice Dagron, born on March 17, 1819, in Beauvoir (Sarthe), and died on June 13, 1900, was a French photographer and inventor. In 1859, he became the first to patent a microfilm process. In 1860, he combined a micro-image with a Stanhope lens, creating miniature photos with 100x magnification.
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Biography of Jennie Kidd Trout (excerpt)
Jennie Kidd Trout (née Gowanlock; April 21, 1841 – November 10, 1921) was the first woman in Canada to become a licensed medical doctor, on March 11, 1875. She remained the only woman authorized to practice medicine until July 1880, when Emily Stowe completed her official qualifications.
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Biography of Francesco Crispi (excerpt)
Francesco Crispi (October 4, 1818 – August 11, 1901) was an Italian patriot and statesman. A key figure in the Risorgimento, he was a close ally of Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi and played a central role in the Italian unification of 1860.
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Biography of Adolphe Pinard (excerpt)
Adolphe Pinard (February 4, 1844, in Méry-sur-Seine, Aube – March 1, 1934) was a French obstetrician and politician, a member of the Academy of Medicine, and regarded as the father of childcare. He also served as a deputy during two legislatures in the Third Republic.
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Biography of Auguste Metz (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine Auguste Metz (8 August 1812 – 22 June 1854) was a Luxembourgish entrepreneur, politician, and lawyer. He played a key role in developing Luxembourg’s steel industry in the 19th century and was a prominent liberal member of the Chamber of Deputies, alongside his brothers.
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Biography of Alexandre Guilmant (excerpt)
Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (March 12, 1837 – March 29, 1911) was a French organist and composer, serving as organist of La Trinité in Paris from 1871 to 1901. A student of his father Jean-Baptiste and later Belgian master Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, he became an organist and teacher in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
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Biography of Pierre Lallement (excerpt)
Pierre Lallement (October 25, 1843 – August 29, 1891) was a French inventor, considered by some as the creator of the bicycle. In 1862, while working at a baby carriage factory in Nancy, he designed a bicycle by adding pedals and a crank to a draisine.
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Biography of Roberto Menini (excerpt)
Roberto Menini (October 18, 1837 – 1916) was a Catholic archbishop and apostolic vicar of the Sofia-Plovdiv vicariate. Born in Split, Dalmatia, he mastered South Slavic languages. After studying law, he graduated in theology from the University of Graz. Ordained a Capuchin priest on July 5, 1863, he was elected titular bishop of Metelopol and coadjutor of Sofia-Plovdiv in 1880.
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Biography of Désiré Dihau (excerpt)
Désiré Hippolyte Dihau (August 2, 1833, Lille – August 19, 1909, Paris) was a French bassoonist and composer, famously immortalized by Edgar Degas in the painting L'Orchestre de l'Opéra. Career Trained at the conservatories of Lille and Paris, he won first prize for bassoon in 1857.
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Biography of Camila O'Gorman (excerpt)
Camila O’Gorman (July 9, 1825 – August 18, 1848) was a young woman from Argentine high society whose affair with Father Ladislao Gutiérrez caused a major scandal. Her execution while eight months pregnant sparked international outrage and weakened the rule of dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
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Biography of Emily Stowe (excerpt)
Emily Howard Stowe (née Jennings, May 1, 1831, in Norwich Township, Ontario, and died April 30, 1903) was a Canadian physician, the first woman to practise medicine in Canada, and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. Born into a Quaker farming family, she initially worked as a teacher before pursuing medicine.
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Biography of Lucy Hobbs Taylor (excerpt)
Lucy Hobbs Taylor (March 14, 1833 – October 3, 1910) was an American dentist, known for being the first woman to graduate from a dental school (Ohio College of Dental Surgery, 1866). Initially denied entry to the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati due to her gender, a professor privately tutored her and encouraged her to pursue dentistry.
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Biography of Jakob Christian Heusser (excerpt)
Jakob Christian Heusser (March 28, 1826 – April 21, 1909) was a Swiss crystallographer, mineralogist, and geologist. Born in Hirzel, Canton of Zurich, he was the son of physician Johann Jakob Heusser and poet Meta Heusser-Schweizer. After studying medicine in Zurich, he specialized in natural sciences in Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1851.
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Biography of Mario Tiberini (excerpt)
Mario Tiberini (8 September 1826 – 16 October 1880) was an Italian tenor who performed leading roles in opera houses across Europe and the Americas during a 25-year career. Renowned for his advanced vocal technique and dramatic talent, he created the role of Alvaro in the revised version of Verdi’s La forza del destino and originated several roles in operas by lesser-known composers, including the title role in Faccio’s Amleto.
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Biography of Charles Lassailly (excerpt)
Charles Lassailly (born September 3, 1806, in Orléans; died July 14, 1843, in Paris) was a French writer. He is classified among the "minor romantics" and the "frenetic romantics," alongside Philothée O'Neddy and Xavier Forneret, and is best known for his work Les Roueries de Trialph.
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Biography of Theodor Storm (excerpt)
Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm was a German writer, born on September 14, 1817, in Husum (then part of the Duchy of Schleswig) and died on July 4, 1888, in Hanerau-Hademarschen. He is renowned for his prose works and poetry. Born into a notable family, he spent a happy childhood in Husum, where his father was a legal advisor.
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Biography of Paul de Flotte (excerpt)
Louis François René Paul de Flotte (born 1 February 1817 in Landerneau – died 22 August 1860 in Solano, Calabria) was a French naval officer, explorer, inventor, revolutionary, and deputy. After excelling at the Naval Academy, he joined the global expeditions of Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars and Jules Dumont d’Urville.
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Biography of Rosier Faassen (excerpt)
Pieter Jacobus (Rosier) Faassen (The Hague, September 9, 1833 – Rotterdam, February 2, 1907) was a Dutch actor and playwright. Born into a family connected to the theater, his father directed the French Opera and a theater in The Hague, immersing Faassen in the theatrical world from an early age.
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Biography of Charlotte Yhlen (excerpt)
Charlotte Yhlen (19 November 1839 – 14 January 1920) was the first female Swedish physician. Born to a shoemaker in Helsingborg, she received only primary education, as Swedish universities were still closed to women. In 1868, she emigrated to the United States and studied medicine at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1873.
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Biography of Jean Servais Stas (excerpt)
Jean Servais Stas (August 21, 1813 – December 13, 1891) was a Belgian physician and analytical chemist, known for his work on atomic masses. Graduating in medicine in 1835, he discovered chemistry while working with Jean-Baptiste Van Mons and later refined his research in Paris under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. |
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